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The Best American Poetry blog reports that the fabled Poetry Brothel (sneak peak video above) is coming to Chicago on July 10th.

Ben Ratliff in the New York Times Book Review thinks so: Anne Carson’s new book comes in a box the color of a rainy day, with a sliver of a family...

The Telegraph seems to think so: The new boards such as AQA and Edexel, which set the syllabuses for both GSCE and A-level, are markedly biased...

Mabel Loomis Todd, mistress of Emily's brother Austin DickinsonWhile perpetuating some of the goofy myths about Emily Dickinson, the Seattle Times gushes over a new book cataloging the...

Quoth the New York Times: World Cup, shmorld cup — if you’re not following the heated election for the professor of poetry at Oxford University, you’re missing out on some intense...

The Globe and Mail has the tragic story of poet Pat Lowther: Pat Lowther never showed up. That night, her husband bludgeoned her with a hammer and dumped her body into...

Lambda Literary has high praise for Sina Queyras: Lemon Hound is a tour de force; it meditates in particular on the work of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein through playful and...

Cate Marvin (among others) answers the question for the Poetry Society of America: American poetry has been going gangbusters since the turn of the nineteenth century. Twentieth century American poetry is...

The New York Observer offers up a live review of a reading by Muldoon and Ashbery--and finds the setting apt for the latter: He propped his elbow on the arm of...

Brian Spears wonders about all things manly and poetic on his blog: I remain convinced that the strongest, most innovative poetry out there today is being written mostly by women, and...